Inventor · Bristol, GB

Peter Phaal

29Patents
18h-index
9Co-inventors
74Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 26, 1991 → Mar 28, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5477531A Method and apparatus for testing a packet-based network Electricity 308 Expired
US8005009B2 Methods and computer programs for generating data traffic matrices Electricity 226 Active
US5315580A Network monitoring device and system Electricity 197 Expired
US6055564A Admission control where priority indicator is used to discriminate between messages Electricity 187 Expired
US6006269A Admission control system with messages admitted or deferred for re-submission at a later time on a priority basis Electricity 146 Expired
US6360270B1 Hybrid and predictive admission control strategies for a server Electricity 138 Expired
US5539659A Network analysis method Electricity 101 Expired
US6138159A Load direction mechanism Electricity 78 Expired
US6894972B1 Intelligent collaboration across network system Electricity 67 Expired
US5675786A Accessing data held in large databases Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 61 Expired
US5450408A Method of ascertaining topology features of a network Electricity 56 Expired
US5621664A Monitoring system status Electricity 50 Expired
US5712981A Network anaysis method for identifying global and local node servers and for determining a reconfigured network to provide improved traffic patterns Electricity 31 Expired
US5389882A LAN measurement apparatus for determining voltage between packets Physics 26 Expired
US7164657B2 Intelligent collaboration across network systems Electricity 25 Expired
US7596694B1 System and method for safely executing downloaded code on a computer system Electricity 23 Active
US5557547A Monitoring system status Electricity 23 Expired
US9712443B1 Distributed traffic quota measurement and enforcement Electricity 21 Active
US7245587B2 Method to associate input and output interfaces with packets read from a mirror port Electricity 17 Expired
US6823392B2 Hybrid and predictive admission control strategies for a server Electricity 14 Expired
US5884244A Method for measuring quality of service in a computer system Physics 12 Expired
US8504686B2 Method and apparatus for combining data associated with hardware resources and network traffic Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Active
US6446222B1 System for and method of sending network problem information along a communication path Electricity 8 Expired
US9722926B2 Method and system of large flow control in communication networks Electricity 4 Active
US6819656B2 Session based scheduling scheme for increasing server capacity Electricity 4 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.